Social and cultural anthropology

The book describes the Ankarana plateau and its cave network in Madagascar, depicting the natural environment of the Plateau as well as the natural processes which created the cave network of more than 100km with many galleries, some are very large and draped with different cave formations and underground rivers are inhabited with crocodiles and giant eels.

This fully updated new edition of Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective carefully introduces and responds to changes in anthropological approaches to and perspectives on gender.

Originally published in 1995, Analyzing Superfund outlines the key issues of the superfund reauthorization debate in the United States.

Rigorous exploration of the Trump administration''s pro-fossil fuel policy and its lasting impact on public health, the economy, and the environment.

Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared.

With 29 percent of all trips made by bicycle, Copenhagen is considered a model of green transport.

Sacred & Delicious is an award-winning vegetarian cookbook, a primer on Ayurveda (India’s ancient wellness system), and a gorgeous food memoir that celebrates the healing power of food.

Examines interrelations between flood management, flooding, and environmental change, for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners.

In Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens explores the work of four iconic twentieth-century black male performers-Bert Williams, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley-to reveal how racial and sexual difference is both marked by and experienced in the skin.

This book presents the latest information on the biomolecules derived from the coconut and their prominent roles in human well-being.

The people of South Asia includes a very large number of primitive tribes who subsists on hunting, fishing and simple form of agriculture.

Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States?

In the electronic age, documents appear to have escaped their paper confinement.

This volume explores "e;performative linguistic space"e;, namely a space which ushers or hinders linguistic practices.

Since the dawn of social science, theorists have debated how and why societies appear to change, develop and evolve.

Human Societies: A Brief Introduction succinctly covers the basic concepts of cultural anthropology in a way that is relevant and engaging to the introductory student.

In China mauert man sich ein.

In 2016, Canada's newly elected federal government publically committed to reconciling the social and material deprivation of Indigenous communities across the country.

This book offers a cross-civilizational and interdisciplinary approach to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) research to mitigate the problematiques of extant literature.

This book reveals the history of the Vatican's ethnographic collections by exploring the imperial, scientific, technological, and religious agendas behind its collecting and curating practices in the early twentieth century.

The Color Line provides a concise history of the role of race and ethnicity in the US, from the early colonial period to the present, to reveal the public policies and private actions that have enabled racial subordination and the actors who have fought against it.

In The Charismatic Gymnasium Maria Jose de Abreu examines how Charismatic Catholicism in contemporary Brazil produces a new form of total power through a concatenation of the breathing body, theology, and electronic mass media.

Nutritional requirements vary greatly according to age and lifestyle.

Allopathy is often described as 'western' medicine, the antithesis of homeopathy, yet all medical systems are infused with culture-specific values, ideas and beliefs.

The discipline of religious studies has historically tended to focus on discrete ritual mistakes occurring in the context of individual performances as outlined in ethnographic or sociological studies; scholars have largely overlooked the extensive discussions of ritual mistakes that exist in the religious literature of indigenous traditions.

Non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and hypertension, represent the cause of 60% of all deaths around the globe.

This volume, the second of a two volume set, offers a rich and unique collection of global perspectives on data-driven predictive technologies and the expansion and use of surveillance apparatuses in policing and intelligence, both public and private.

Microbiota are a promising and fascinating subject in biology because they integrate the microbial communities in humans, animals, plants, and the environment.

Invented religions have been described as modern religions which advertise their invented status and reject traditional strategies of authorisation.

In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In the United States the conventional left/right distinction has become increasingly irrelevant, if not harmful.

This book presents an anthology of nutrition articles containing advice, information, and tips for achieving optimal health.

After three decades of massive rural-to-urban migration in China, a burgeoning population of over 35 million second-generation migrants living in its cities poses a challenge to socialist modes of population management and urban governance.

This book examines the challenges and impacts of poor diets and nutrition from current food systems and the potential contribution of biodiversity and ecosystem services in addressing these problems.

This book assesses river health in the Lancang River Basin with regard to the impacts of hydropower projects.

This book presents mercury toxicity with respect to remediation and health issues.

A Companion to Moral Anthropology is the first collective consideration of the anthropological dimensions of morals, morality, and ethics.

In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki.

A lucid exposition of ancient and medieval beliefs about strix-witches, who surreptitiously penetrated homes by night to devour babies.

This collection offers the fruits of a stimulating workshop that sought to bridge the fraught relationship which sometimes continues between anthropologists and indigenous/native/aboriginal scholars, despite areas of overlapping interest.

In her timely new book, Teresa M.

Based on 15 years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book understands the increasing violence seen in cities as a product of the emergence of transnational illegal markets since the 1970's, followed by the suppression of unskilled workers, in many places racialised young men from poor neighbourhoods.

This collection explores the central importance of values and evaluative concepts in cross-cultural translational encounters.

This edited volume examines what the classic text The Ethnography of Reading (Boyarin ed.

This monograph examines the Iranian and Shia legal debates on technologies of assisted reproduction (including embryo donation and surrogacy) and looks at the regulations and implementation of these technologies in Iran.

This book is for everyone curious about the Sun and how it has been perceived throughout human history, including the modern scientific view.

This volume wholeheartedly engages with the current climate in higher education and provides not only a thorough analysis of the foundational elements constituting higher education but also a critical discussion of possible connections to societal and cultural domains and policy debates.